In the first season, Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford) leaves behind several tapes detailing the events which led her to take her own life.

It informed the structure of the season, as each of the 13 sides (seven tapes in total) corresponded to one individual episode and centred on one particular character who did Hannah wrong. Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette) took the slow-burn approach and listened to Hannah's voice one side at a time.

But now that Hannah is gone, it makes less sense to rely on the tapes.

"The tapes are still obviously on people's minds, but there is a different sort of analogue technology that plays a hugely important role in season two," show creator Brian Yorkey explained to Entertainment Weekly.

"So the cassette tapes aren't at the centre of it — those two boxes of tapes are still hanging around and matter to people — but there will be a new piece of technology for 13-year-olds to Google and try to understand what it was."

"When people intimate that Jessica's story is done, I find that a horrific thought because Jessica is just beginning the process of recovering from her rape, and we have a rapist who has not in any way been brought to justice," he said.

"To leave those two things hanging out there in the world would be upsetting."